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What if your mobile apps weren’t spying on you and exposing your data?
Meet Veilid (pronounced Vay-Lid), an open-source, peer-to-peer application framework launched at Def Con this week.
Described as “conceptually similar to IPFS and Tor,” the team behind it says it will bring the better parts of those with more performance and security for messaging, file-sharing, or social network apps that don’t harvest user data.
As proof of concept, the team has posted source code for VeilidChat, a Signal-like messaging app. There’s more coverage from the Washington Post, Engadget, and The Register.
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